巴托：（FCII p8）
Though souls are Baator’s primary currency, gold and other treasure items are the next best trade goods. After all, diabolical conspiracies in the Material Plane generally require huge infusions of wealth. Money clothes and feeds cultists and other minions. It pays for spies and assassins, and it underwrites the bribing of officials. Though labor is often enslaved or coerced, devils still must buy materials for the construction of temples, catacombs, and fortresses. Most important, gold buys souls.
It is no accident that the typical Faustian pact with a devil (see page 23) exchanges inducements such as gold, information, supernatural powers, or the services of other devils for the mortal signatory’s soul. Servants of Archduke Mammon specialize in such transactions, and even they marvel at the low price for which many mortals are willing to surrender their immortal essences.
Devils collect treasure on the Material Plane and either transport it to Baator for later redistribution or use it to finance
their own operations. Their superiors credit them for every copper piece they kick back into the chain of command.
Financial contributions to the hierarchy count for less than the souls reaped, but for advancement-hungry devils, every
little bit helps.
